| 单词 | wilful murderer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswilful murderer 5. Done on purpose or wittingly; purposed, deliberate, intentional; not accidental or casual. Chiefly, now always, in bad sense, of an action either evil in itself or blameworthy in the particular case; often (with colour of sense A. 1) implying ‘perverse, obstinate’. Also transferred of the agent, as wilful murderer, one who commits wilful murder. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention bethoughtc1200 expressa1400 wilfula1400 purposedc1422 purpensed1436 malice prepensed1454 aforethought1472 studiedc1475 setc1485 voluntary1495 deliberate?1527 willing1550 witting1553 propensed1560 fore-intendeda1586 affected1586 designed1586 determinate1586 intended1592 deliberated1594 uncasual1614 recollecteda1616 resolved1624 industriousa1628 intentionate1631 pre-intended1636 advised1642 malice prepense1647 sedentary1647 propense1650 consultive1651 (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692 conscious1726 intentionala1729 systematic1746 studious1750 systematical1750 prepensive1752 advertent1832 self-conscious1832 volitive1839 designful1852 purposeful1853 purposive1864 thought-controlled1926 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 9633 It was his aun..wilful sin þat did vs all fra him to tuin. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (1531) Mortall synnes, & carnall consentes to the same, and wylfull delectacyons in synne. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. ixv Wylfull murtherers, whom God commaundeth to be taken from the aulter. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C5 Although it be wilfull and purposed murther. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 142 How will their grudging stomackes be prouok'd To wilfull Disobedience, and Rebell? View more context for this quotation a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxx2/1 Can there be wilfuller destruction? 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) at Waste Wilful Waste makes woful Want. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 20 Charge not..Your wilful suicide on God's decree. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxvi. 387 Though his character has..been misrepresented through hostile prejudices and wilful calumny. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xxviii On a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury. < as lemmas |
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